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The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Mark, on top of that, Radio Silence from the president on that statement and on the hack overall. Why . Well, because he doesnt necessarily know what to say. What he has done at this point is that he has put his intelligence chiefs in a very awkward position because they are not go you to have to come out and answer for what President Trump said less than 24 hours ago, where he said that this probe the mueller probe, ...

Positive. they had a congratulatory phone call and u.s. officials were comfortable with the direction things were going. and then things turned sour. and so one conversation, for instance, he had with vladimir putin, trump actually broached the subject of zelensky and said, what do you think about him? and putin said, according to a western official familiar with the conversation, that this is someone with -- this is a comedian and somebody who is linked to ukrainian corrupt oligarchs. he was sp...

With and strengthen with as it was fending off russian-backed separatists in the east. >> according to your reporting, the efforts by putin and orban were actually anticipated by national security officials. i mean how did it go from, you know, folks in the trump white house, the national security team, you know, being concerned that putin and orban were going to be whispering in the presidents ear about this to the point where they actually -- that actually happened? >> thats right. there was a...

Kaitlan, reportedly telling the president that all roads lead to putin. here we are with yet another road leading to or from putin. >> and this was a big question inside the white house when the president wanted to make that july call to zelensky because he had already made a congratulatory call earlier in the year. they had already spoken, got that out of the way. people were surprised, we were told when we were reporting this out, by the president wanting to make that phone call because before...

By leaks of the content of those discussions. >> yeah, john hudson, stick around i want to bring in cnn senior political analyst davidger again and jeffrey toobin. shouldnt putin be the last person on the planet influencing how president trump feels about ukraine given the fact that putin has invaded crimea? >> absolutely, and its hard to think of a more wholesome trio than giuliani, putin, and orban, you know. it is like what? what are we doing here? listen, a little context. it has been americ...

You know, everybody works for the state department and sending, you know, rudy giuliani to skulk about in ukraine and meet up with his friends hes being paid by, who are taking had imarouhim around to hunt do biden scoops in a server. it sounds almost like a joke, but the idea its actually real is extraordinary. >> yeah. i mean its horrific. then youve got the president throwing ukraine under the bus essentially vis-á-vis russia by saying, well, okay, the brain surgeons that i have working on t...

Also kaitlan collins and jeffrey toobin. david, shouldnt putin be the last person on the planet influencing how president trump feels about ukraine given the fact that putin has invaded crimea? >> absolutely. and its hard to think of a more wholesome trio than giuliani, putin, and orban. you know, it is like what? what are we doing here? listen, a little context. it has been american foreign policy for some time now to support and strengthen ukraine, to come to the aid of those leaders. thats wh...

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We know there were meetings in advance between the epas top decision-maker on this and the mining company, but the epa is insisting that there was no advanced notice on what they called the timing or content of this decision. they said that those meetings, including meetings with those opposed to the mine are quite common. the epa fighting back on this with us saying there was no tip. >> so where is this complaint going? the sec is not investigating at this point, right? >> well, we dont know. t...

Perceptions of ukraine to the dismay of some of his advisers. quoting now from "the washington post," quote, over time, you just see a wearing down of defenses, a former white house official said, describing the struggle to contest the influence of giuliani, putin, and orban. and just pause a minute to consider the implications. the leader of the one country that no president before this one has fully trusted was telling this president not to trust ukraine, a country that russia seeks to dominat...